Care of Returning Veterans

Linda Schwartz talked about the needs and challenges for returning veterans. She contrasted the needs of veterans returning from World…
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Linda Schwartz talked about the needs and challenges for returning veterans. She contrasted the needs of veterans returning from World War II and the Korea and Vietnam wars with the those returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Other topics included women veterans. In her speech she told several stories and detailed various statistics on veterans. The program also included questions from audience members.

Schwartz is the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner, the immediate past president of the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs, and a former Air Force flight nurse and veterans activist close

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*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.